Oh, you think you know it all? Unless you’re Ken Jennings, chances are this list contains at least one wild fact about our world (and everyone...
Oh, you think you know it all? Unless you’re
Ken Jennings, chances are this list of
fascinating facts contains at least one wild tidbit about our world (and everyone in it) that you never knew.
1
“The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.” - u/OzziesUndies
2
“Manatees have nails on their flippers!” - u/shagdoll
3
“Elvis Presley’s manager sold ‘I hate Elvis’ merchandise to profit off the haters.” - u/omri6royi70
4
“Fanta soda was created by Coca-Cola for the Germans during WWII. America banned all exports to Germany when they declared war, so Coca-Cola created Fanta, which only used local German products to replicate the flavor of their cola.” - u/caseywatson
5
“Tom Brady has thrown more touchdown passes in his 40s than he did in his 20s.” - u/gate63
6
“If a bald eagle loses a feather, it sheds the same feather on the opposite side of its body to stay perfectly balanced in flight.” - u/nottaround
7
“The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.” - u/jmshub
8
“Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.” - u/LobotomistPrime
9
“Madagascar has a larger population than Australia.” - u/swagnersf
10
“Australia is wider than the moon.” - u/fruit_cats
11
“Butterflies and Moths can drink blood and tears in order to get nutrients. It’s called ‘mud-puddling.’” - u/MonetsMenagerie
12
“British carousels turn clockwise. American carousels turn counterclockwise.” - u/Puzzled-Albatross-86
13
“If you type the word ‘askew’ into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.” - u/TripleGGreggStarski
14
“It takes ~10^8 atoms laid in a row to span the width of a human fingernail (which is ~1 centimeter). If the same number of standard wooden pencils were laid end to end, they would circumnavigate the Earth’s equator more than 47 times.” - u/BattleBornMom
15
“The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.” - u/haydensidun
16
“Big Bird was almost in the Challenger explosion; he was planned to go to get kids interested in space, but the costume (over eight feet tall) was too big to fit.” - u/DoggoDude979
17
“Eugene Aldrin, the father of famous astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.” - u/cfitzi
18
“The patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.” - u/CorinRyptide
19
“Sharks existed before trees.” - u/prairiemountainzen
20
“Humans’ ability to smell petrichor (the smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than sharks’ ability to smell blood in water.” - u/issaparadox
21
“Canada and the United States share the longest land border in the world.” - u/ElevatedPairOfPants
22
“‘Corgi’ is a translation of Welsh for ‘dwarf dog’: ‘cor gi.’” - u/TaffWolf
23
“Every odd number has the letter ‘E’ in it.” - u/bailedd
24
“For many decades, the General Electric Company owned NBC. The three chimes of the NBC jingle are the notes G-E-C.” - u/faceintheblue
25
“Penguins have knees.” - u/revo_kid
